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22nd August 2017 / 5th March 2024 by Matt Stratford
The fight against the dirty Greenwich Cruise Terminal continues and Greenwich Greens are asking for your help by signing two petitions. Dan Garrun, a Green candidate for Peninsula ward, said today: Thanks to great work by residents on the Peninsula there does seem to be some movement against the polluting scheme from the mayor’s office […]
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18th August 2017 / 3rd February 2024 by Matt Stratford
Newly published figures have revealed how Greenwich Council’s delivery of social housing is well below the London average. The figures, published by the GMB union, show that over the past year 23.1% of the new homes built in London have been for social rent (a form of housing traditionally known as council housing). In contrast just 8.3% […]
14th August 2017 / 4th April 2019 by Matt Stratford
Its summer and time to get out an about. This Sunday volunteers and friends of the Greenwich Green Party headed out from Oxleas Woods to the Thames Barrier for an educational and inspiring jaunt around our beautiful Borough. We’re intending on doing a regular walk around various bits of the borough as a way to […]
23rd May 2017 / 4th April 2019 by Matt Stratford
What is your background? I have a background in nursing, social care and housing law and live in Thamesmead. I now work in the housing sector. Has this work affected your political outlook? When I started working in the housing law sector I was unaware of the hardship that people experienced accessing advice and assistance […]
11th May 2017 / 3rd February 2024 by Matt Stratford
Members of the Greenwich Green Party have voted to stand aside their candidate in Eltham and will not contest the constituency in the General Election to be held on June 8th 2017. The decision was not made as part of a so-called electoral alliance but to protect a marginal seat from falling into Conservative hands. […]
7th May 2017 / 4th April 2019 by Matt Stratford
NB: This article applies to a parliamentary candidate for the 2017 General Election. What is your background and when did you come to live in Greenwich? I’m South African by origin from Johannesburg. I came to London in 2008 when I was 25, just for the adventure really and I wasn’t disappointed. Like most young […]
5th May 2017 / 4th April 2019 by Matt Stratford
Ann Garrett is secretary of Bromley and Beckenham CND, joint convenor of Bromley Peace Council, joint co-ordinator of Bromley Green Party and Friends of the Earth, joint chair of Save Our Local Hospitals and Services (Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley group) and a member of Amnesty, Bromley Cuts Concern, Greenpeace, Bromley Civic Society, Bromley Against Fracking, […]
I’ve lived in South London for eight years and I am very proud of my wonderful community in Woolwich Dockyard where I’ve lived for three years. Update: Dan has moved to Southend and is now helping the local Green Party to gain council seats there. We thank him for his contributions. As the co-coordinator for […]
1st May 2017 / 3rd February 2024 by Matt Stratford
Last night we made Green history in Greenwich & Woolwich by keeping our deposit for the first time ever as well as beating the Lib Dems. Our candidate Abbey Akinoshun nearly trebled our vote from 2010, taking 6.4 percent of the vote with a swing of 3.8 percent. That was a greater swing than to […]
15th June 2016 / 4th April 2019 by Matt Stratford
Tackling climate change, protecting wildlife and cleaning up our environment needs international cooperation. Endangered species, fragile ecosystems, oil spills and livestock diseases do not obey man-made boundaries, and neither do the winds, floods and storms that grow fiercer every year. Fine, but why can’t countries co-operate on this outside the EU? Governments come and go; […]
4th January 2016 / 4th April 2019 by Matt Stratford
Proposals include abolition of zones and ‘ONE Ticket’ to end extra payments changing from mainline, DLR or bus to Tube. On the day transport fares go up throughout the country, activists from Greenwich and Lewisham Green Parties will today hand out #FairFares postcards to commuters at Overground, DLR and mainline stations across the two boroughs […]
1st May 2015 / 4th April 2019 by Matt Stratford
Yesterday the Labour candidate in the forthcoming Greenwich West by-election announced he had brokered a meeting between Divest Greenwich, which is campaigning for the Labour-controlled Royal Borough of Greenwich to withdraw its investments in fossil fuels, and council leader Denise Hyland. Greenwich Green Party warmly welcomes any change of attitude on this issue. It follows […]
24th April 2015 / 4th April 2019 by Matt Stratford
Labour candidate Matt Pennycook supports his party’s pro-fracking position, and thinks we can frack our way to a low-carbon future. Here’s why he’s wrong. Matt Pennycook’s election pamphlet recently dropped onto our doormats. He tells us that Labour will try and decarbonise our energy supply. Great! But wait a minute. The last we heard, Labour were […]
9th April 2015 / 3rd February 2024 by Matt Stratford
Our part of London is being turned into a luxury high-rise quarter to benefit wealthy outsiders, but the local MP has spent years cheering the building frenzy on. That’s no surprise: Nick Raynsford was paid twice as much by the construction industry last year as he was to represent his constituents. Now that he is finally […]